Name: Lutibacter flavus Choi et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fla’vus. L. masc. adj. flavus, yellow, the colour of colonies and pigments of the bacterium

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 27993; IMCC 1507; KACC 14312; NBRC 107589

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU166749 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Choi A, Yang SJ, Cho JC. Lutibacter flavus sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a tidal flat sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:946-951.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.09820 (N = 93).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Lutibacter Choi and Cho 2006

Assigned by: Choi A, Yang SJ, Cho JC. Lutibacter flavus sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a tidal flat sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:946-951.

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